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| quote: | Originally posted by kitphillips
I was gonna say it but didn't want to start a flame war. Nexus is rubbish. Generic rubbish.
And that actually makes sense, probably the pluck referred to is actually a "guitar" sample from a roland or korg module... Shoulda thought of that. |
Regarding those classic plucks, I know that many producers were using the Rolang JV1080. That might come from that legendary module that Roland never released as a softsynth... shame on them!
Ok, for the info, you have several Roland modules sharing the exact same technology but with different waveforms. No way you can upgrade to get the other's sounds. So there's the JD-800 that started it all, for me one of the best roland synths ever. Then they released the jv80 that was based on the same technology, that shared only 20% of its soundbank. Then there was the JV-1080 that was expandable, same exact thing... only a few sounds were the same (pizzicato, insomnia anyone??, or the guitars, and so on).
Other synths that guys were using back in that time: Kurzweil k2000, Korg Trinity/Triton, Quasimidi Raven, E-mu Orbit and Planet Phatt, Yamaha CS1X, Roland JD990, Korg 01W and T series (X2/3/5, 03R and so on are the same series).
The fact that none of those is available as a softsynth is basically the reason why many people buy and/or use Nexus nowadays. Love it or hate it, but it features a sound library that sampled all of those synths among others. Nexus looks great for those clichι sounds at first sight, but I can't tell if it's worth it diggin deeper into its synthesis. I already have too much here (I'm trying to sell my Reaktor and Massive licenses in order to get Kontakt instead) so I don't think I'll ever buy it.
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